1-99 F2P Mining & Smithing Guide - OSRS F2P Skill Guide

[@TilerBlevens]

this guy deserves way more views because its straight to the point, timestamped, no bs content

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thank you for the comment and the awesome feedback 😁👍🙏 it’s much appreciated 😁

[@LifeOfWib]

I absolutely love it bruv, thank you for all the time you've put in for this. I'm sure there are countless players who will definitely profit off this

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo man! Thanks for the awesome comment 😁👍 Honestly, it makes the channel worthwhile when people say that the guides and videos are useful so I really appreciate the support and you taking the time to comment 😁👍 Thanks again!

[@JulesBrunoJjBaggy]

Thank you! I smelted iron ore that I bought on the GE with rings of forging and got 80 smithing before I wanted to kms.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hahaha yeah understandable Jules! 😅 Unfortunately that’s the nature of 99’s in F2P… Absolute wars of attrition. I really struggle at times… I think I’m still broken from my last HCIM grind to be honest… 😂😂😂 Thanks for the comment 👍👍👍

[@GamesAndWhales]

Extra little bonus manual method for folks wanting to combine their mining, smithing, and I suppose magic grinding? Once you have superheat metal take a walk to the somewhat new Giants Plateu just south of Emil's Arena. Bring along a fire staff, some nature runes, a pick, and a hammer. In this area is a small mine south of the abbey with 3 Iron and 4 Coal rocks (though not in an ideal placement) and a short walk to the center of this area is an anvil to smith all the bars you're making. Note it's quite a hike to/from town to bank if you aren't dropping everything you craft (ironman players probably want to make scimitars or leg armor to sell at the shops in town rather than plate). Neither fast nor click light, but you do get magic xp, level up both skills with one activity, and there isn't too much competition to mine those rocks.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh that's a good alternative mining spot! I always forgot about the giants plateau, looking at the map if you were mining iron in Al'Kharid and banking the ore/bars its probably a similar distance! Thanks for sharing that GamesAndWhales! 👍👍😀😀

[@MCenna]

Absolutely love these f2p guides! This came out at the perfect time, just had my bond expire and am training both for ds2. Your the best at this, really. Keep it up! 💯

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

That’s awesome feedback 😎😁 Really appreciate it! Thank you! 👍 Glad the video are helping you! 😁 DS2 is a tough one! Hope you get it done! Good luck!

[@dannywaider]

Love it, so simple and grindy. Also, thanks for the financial tips! Hopefully more people see your budget advice and earn better interest on their investments!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Cheers 🍻 @dannywaider! Yeah if you watch the markets and smith at the right time you can definitely make some good money! I mean smithing bars is a great money spinner and relatively AFK too!

[@jhomastefferson3693]

Ive been using camdozal a bit. I was at 45 in melees,, 41 in mining and 35 in smithing. My plan was to get all boosts and go farm the golems after for body cores for rc. I got bored and farmed giants up to 50 melee combats and bought 45 pray off the ge. Then i went back. I now have the mining, luck, and defensive buffs and it took me from 35 smith to 38, and 41 mining to 47. By the time i unlock all of them, ill maybe be at 50 mining and 40 smith. Its not great xp, but it enables arguably the best xp rate in runecrafting by then farming body cores.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo! @jhomastefferson! Yeah I think farming body cores while training melee does offer a pretty good overall xp rate 🤔 I think that’s definitely a flaw in my video and something I should have gone into more depth on! Thanks for your comment man 😁👍 hope the training in Camdozaal goes well! I got base 60 combat with my HCIM in there using the golems, all the buffs plus the Baronite Mace gives arguably the best combat xp in F2P! 👍

[@phxfarmer4844]

Love this channel take pride in what you make

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Cheers man! 😁👍 It’s been a journey, but I’ve enjoyed it so far 😅 Thanks for comment and the support dude 😁👍👍

[@morrisdennison8039]

I’ve been waiting for this forever. I’m at 77 mining and having done any sense but giant key farming for the giant club

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Haha cheers @morrisdennison! Hopefully the guide has not disappointed! Have you had any luck with the giants club? I got a Rune Kite on my HCIM and gave up 😅

[@morrisdennison8039]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight so far I’m at 50 kills, I do already have one I earned from the GE but I wanna put it in my log.

[@LoLFactorUnknown]

Safespotting White Knights for Iron bars is the best method for f2p ironmen I think. They drop fairly commonly in pairs. (This is for doing Knights Sword early on)

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh yeah that's a great point, I didn't think about safe spotting them. I just though about the Dwarves low combat level! Thanks for the tip LoLFactorUnknown, I'll add it to my updates list!

[@MurdaMacJones]

I use al kharid mine. But I use the duel arena bank chest. It seems closer than the reg al kharid bank. I mine the 2 coal ores and the 2 irons side by side. I come out with like 6-8 coal and the rest iron ore. And I don't go through the main entrance of the duel arena; I go through the little fence opening around the back of it. -Nardo Akaru

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

That’s a great tip brother! 😁 I’ll definitely check out that bank run 🤔 I always forget F2P can use that bit, same with the hill giants to the south 😅 Thanks for the comment 😁👍👍

[@Fosgen]

Mine iron ore, smelt to iron bar, sell. Buy gold ore, smelt to bar, make jewellery. 3 skills at once

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah that's a solid method for sure! 👍👍👍 thanks for the comment Fosgen!

[@remrem6486]

Let's gooo, time to train smithing this weekend.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thank you for all you comments remrem 😁👍 It’s much appreciated! And good luck with the training 👍 Hope it goes well and the guide helps 😎

[@rhinorules5056]

Great work man. Keep up the good work!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thanks man 😁🙏 Appreciate the comment and glad you liked the video 👍👍👍

[@phxfarmer4844]

F2P community is awesome

[@OnFight1997]

My advise to the IM RoF business is to do your Combat grind first, I alched ~2k rubies on my way to 99 Ranged, and from 90/90/90 Atk/Str/Def so far, I banked already 1.6k of them, so 99 atk/str/def is enough for all the RoF you will need for 99 smithing.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

More great advice man 😁👍 Thank you! I think if you train on the golems or the ogresses too you will get a good amount of gem drops! 👌

[@dig8634]

​@@TheLumbridgeKnight I discovered today something that trivializes getting rings of forging that really should be noted in smithing guides like these. You can get infinite ruby rings, and thus very easy rings of forging by doing Crack the Clue 3, which lets you into the Varrock bank vault in the basement, where you can worldhop to grab the ruby ring spawn. It's laughably easy, though the more people know about it, the more competition

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yes I need to guide this stuff up!

[@mohamedalserfy2938]

im gonna wait this man you are great i swear

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Much appreciated Mohamed 😁 thanks for the support brother! 👍👍👍

[@mohamedalserfy2938]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@alice20001]

Your videos are the best!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

I think you're the best for Super Chatting! Thank you so much alice20001! I clearly suck as its taken me so long to reply! 😅 Honestly, I don't know if its the summer weather or something else, but I seem to be struggling to get into the creative groove atm! I think its because I'm having to start looking at tax returns for the channel and making a company and that paper work is not fun... Hopefully I can get sorted soon, do you play F2P only or members too?

[@alice20001]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight No worries 😉, just follow your groove. I played F2P for a while but after I finished all the quests I’m now member.

[@eugex121]

Great video👍 Gonna train now, keep up the content!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Awesome! Thank you eugex121! 😁 Your comments are much appreciated 👌

[@Doabubba]

Grate guide. Simple and amazing

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Cheers elkedge, 😁 Just glad the videos useful and helped you 👍😁

[@crazycjk]

5:38 I think I'm the first to notice 69,420 Iron platebodies :)

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Do you mean cos I've rounded it up? 😅😅😅

[@EduBenav]

Great guides my man!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Appreciate it EduBenav 👍 Thank you 😁

[@izakduplessis8562]

lol this is gonna be awesome! thanks man!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hope it lives up to your expectations Izak! 😅😬 Unfortunately F2P methods tend to be brutal but I feel there’s some useful info in the guide 😁 thanks for your support man! 👍👍

[@martinlepage7576]

I mined and smelthed around 10k iron... am fed up. I just want to reach 68 to make my own mithril armor set. I cant imagine reaching 347 000 iron ore. Making iron bodyplate is my next step but i have lost interest. Thank you noble Knight for your helpful tutorials ! Cheers!

[@SargeWolf010]

For every 1 load of mithril I mine I need 4 loads of coal 😅

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah it gets a bit much trying to mine all the smithing materials yourself. It’s much easier to just mine iron ore if you need mining xp, then either buy all the bars you need in bulk and smith them (quickest but most expensive option), or just use iron. Buy a tone of iron ore and rings of forging and smelt bars and smith plate bodies not as expensive as buying all the bars but nowhere near as slow as trying to make the bars yourself 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

[@SargeWolf010]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight I'm a bit crazy for mithril mining and also every world and and every Iron depo seems to have someone there mining it 😑

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Aww that's true, always some bot mining iron in F2P...

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

@@SargeWolf010 They're all bots lol

[@OmniVirusHS]

I feel liking I'm going insane starting at all these darn rocks. So much iron... I almost want to switch gears and see how bad the coal is. Trying to avoid the GE because I find that my cash stack is always so low.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah… you definitely need to become an iron mining robot to get to 99 in F2P… I literally needed to hit 60 for a recent guide video and that was painful 😅😂 And I was already 57 🤣🤣🤣

[@OmniVirusHS]

@TheLumbridgeKnight I can't wait to hit 60 for the Mining Guild. The run from East Varrock Bank to the Southeast Varrock mine has been mind-numbing. The process is even slower if there is a second person there because we usually split the rocks 2/2 instead of having 3 all to myself.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah the mining guilds definitely a way faster run! 👍

[@MilanSmore]

is there a certain smithing level that is recommended generally for f2p?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hi MilanSmore, erm not really, its a completely optional skill in F2P, as any of the quest items can be bought of farmed. I would always aim for base 40 in all stats while in F2P assuming you are planning on going P2P at some point. the exception to this is RuneCrafting, which I's maybe get to 20 or 30 in F2P but its a really painful one. Smithing can be a decent money maker and if you are an ironman and want a Rune Scimitar the only way to get one currently is to smith one yourself.

[@RubDdhd]

runes to get to varrock, book to get to the varrock mine, rinse and repeat for almost no walking to bank iron, thank me later

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Haha cheers man! Showing my ironman bias 😅 I sometimes just get stuck in ironman mode and in F2P they cant really get a lot of law runes so mass teleporting is out, I'll add this to the updates list though! Thanks man! 👍👍

[@finalben7]

I didn't hear you mention anywhere in the video the amount of in game hours it takes to get from 29-44 smithing on a uim. Any idea on that number?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Oh boy…. UIM is well… the ultimate… I’ve got to be honest I’ve never been able to stick with UIM no bank just scares me too much! 😬 It would take a very long time… because you’d have to mine the iron, smelt it, smith it and sell it all in a continuous loop right? 🤔 I’ve got UIM content on my to do list but not even sure I could guess to put a figure on it on the spot… Sorry dude!

[@finalben7]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight Very understandable. Do you know how many hours for a regular iron man?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

So assuming you have enough iron ore banked and have completed the Knights Sword Quest, I recon it will take 70ish inventories of iron items (ideally platebodys), I recon you should be able to smith at least 25 inventories of iron bars an hour, so it should take you 2-3 hours of pure smithing. You will need to mine and bank around 1,500 iron ore and have 11 rings of forging. And that's where you will lose all the time I recon it will take you at least the same again 2-3 hours to mine and bank enough iron ore, plus another 1 or 2 to smelt them. Sorry this is just a rough estimate but I recon you will be looking at around 6-8 hours of concentrated play to get it done. Hope this helps man!

[@lightingsimon]

Hey I'm about to unlock the mineing guild as an f2p player and I heard that the bank there is members only is this true

[@ianharkins2172]

Yeah according to the wiki the bank chests are in the members area

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

It is but you can use the ladders to get to Falador East bank pretty quickly!

[@lightingsimon]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight ohhh I get it now thank you

[@zeldamage001]

I've been playing OSRS for a little while now and started wondering: why lvl up smithing? Sounds like the only goal is to create runite items, as they make a lot of money. Was surprised that mining and selling coal is not great money maker. Why do y'all lvl mining?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hello zeldamage001! Thanks for the comment/question! So smithing if you can level it is a good money maker like you say, plus ironmen can’t buy a rune scimmy, so the only way for them to get one currently is to smith one themselves. At 60+ mining you can mine coal to sell and make money, the reason 60 is recommended is you can access the mining guild. It’s slow going though so you can make more money doing other things. In F2P there’s not a huge reason to train mining past a certain point, unless you’re an Ironman and planning to smith. A lot of people in OSRS see getting 99 stats as the challenge, so mining is good because it’s relatively quick compared to say prayer or runecrafting 😅 There’s more reason to train skills if you are going members because there’s a lot more quests with requirements for it. 😅 Hope that makes sense 😂👍

[@Bear_With_A_Fork]

i just did bronze smiting starting at 29 and 445 bars was not enough please fix this

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hello Beer_With_A_Fork! Sorry it’s not clear in the video, but the 445 bars is enough if you have done The Knight’s Sword quest as your Xp will be 12,725 not 12,031 if you’ve just trained to lvl 29. Sorry I’ll add a note to update the video! Hope that makes sense 😅 Thanks for the comment 😁👍

[@Bear_With_A_Fork]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight thanks! In the end its no big deal if you don't do the quest its only 55 bars off

[@paulvictor7489]

Just grab the iron bar in wildy.

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

😂

[@aldencordova2541]

If im a ironman that doesnt have access tô rings of forging, the best option for me its tô mine silver all the way to 99 so when im about tô lvl up crafting i can use it? I wont be able tô use overheat mage nor rings of forging so what u suggest? Imma do 1 99 at time and was thinking of starting with mining. Maybe i go with iron mining but i keep then banked after 99 mage so i can overheat, idk. Need some theory craft

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hi aldencordova2541! Thanks for the comment 😁👍 So if you are an Ironman you can use rings of forging, you will just be limited on only being able to use the ones you make yourself or any ruby rings you can buy from Grums Gold Exchange in Port Sarim. So this will limit you but you can definitely use them so keep all rubies you find for that. Silver then gold mining/crafting is the way to go if you want to make some decent money as an Ironman. Silver is just a way to get to gold once you can make gold jewellery you can sell it to Grum to make a decent return. In terms of speed iron mining is definitely the fastest 99 in F2P so once you’re at level 40 and have a rune pick you are good to go, if you are wanting to power to 99 as fast as possible I’d just drop the ore, but as an Ironman I would bank your ore as, like you say it’s all extra XP and you can use some rings of forging or overheat later. To enchant your rings speak to Murkey Matt near the GE think he charges 250 coins per ring but it’s worth it! Hope that helps man! 👍 Let me know how you get on 👍👍

[@aldencordova2541]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight yeaw i think i will go with Silver/gold, bank all of it and maybe go for crafting on my second 99(or some other like WC/fishing), but i think 99 mining its a good starting point. What would you be the best location for gold mining, keeping in mind that imma be lvl 3 with 10 HP so scorpion places might me dangerous, any idea? Maybe falador(safespoting the gold and eating some cakes). Another problem is that in order to buy all pickaxes i would need like 50/60k, i can get 10k with stronghold of security, but the rest of it i would need to sell the ores, well i suppose thats not a problem. Thanks for the tips in regards tô the rings of forging, idk if im gonna be able tô use it bc theres not many ways tô get Ruby rings(maybe i can buy them at port sarim, gotta check), so i dont think i would be able tô craft those rubies i mine.

[@aldencordova2541]

Bro, i was doing some calculations and if i mine silver from 1-96 mining i get 99 crafting banked, then 96 - 99 with iron(with all smelting exp), i can get up to 94 smithing. The problem is that, in order to train crafting, i need 99 smithing, and in order to train smithing appropriately i would need rings of forging( almost 700), which would cost over 1,5m just to buy ruby rings from stores then pay 250gp to enchant. So, in the end, i will need lots of gp, not only to train those 2 skills, but to train 99 magic(which would be great btw, so i woudnt need to pay for enchanting all those rings). Do you have any suggestion to get money on a f2p ironman skill locked? I tought maybe LMS was a good option, bc i could trade the rewards and sell(i need to confirm if its f2p viable as much as p2p) BUT i checked and it need 150 total lvl to start it, which means i would need almost 2 99's to get. Anyway, selling my ores to shops its not an option bc i need the exp banked, so, any idea how to make lots of money passively? Like selling fishes or logs. If you have time i would accept your help with my theory craft haha Thanks anyway!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo man sounds like you’re really crunching those numbers! If you’re sticking as a lvl 3 skilling pure the scorpions 🦂 definitely present a bit of problem 🤔 ultimately in this case you need to get 60 crafting and 60 mining so you can use the crafting and mining guild. Crafting guild has a lot of gold and silver and you can bank your ore using the deposit box in port sarim. Mining guild has a lot of decent ores and no scorpions plus quick bank access. 🤔 ok… so my suggestion would be get to 6 crafting, 20 mining and 20 smithing. Dorics quest will help. You have 2 options now either head to south west Varrock mine and mine silver till you hit 40 mining banking the ore in the west back so we can craft silver later for the crafting xp. Or only get 15 mining and just power mine iron to level 40 at Varrock east mine. You’ll need about 2,391 silver ore to smelt which will get you to 40 smithing. Once you have 40 smithing switch to mining gold at Rimmington and bank it using the deposit box at port sarim. Get about 116 gold then the make gold necklaces. This should get you to 16 crafting, now craft all you silver into unstrung symbols and once all that’s done sell your symbols at the general stores and sell your gold necklaces to grums gold exchange. Make sure to only sell a few at a time and then world hop to keep a decent price. This should get you the money to buy a rune pick. Probably need to calculate when’s best to switch it up but at 23 crafting you can make tiars which don’t sell as much as unstrung symbols but give more crafting xp. Obviously like you said before doing the SoS to get your 10k coins and keeping updating your pick axe as you level. I’d then go back to mining 5k silver to craft into tiaras till you hit 60 crafting. Once you can access the crafting guild you can choose weather you want to craft gold necklaces to sell a grums for money or silver tiars for crafting xp. All the while gaining mining xp in the background. 🤔😅 off the top of my head I think that’s what my plan would be 😅

[@randarkanan]

who the fuuck is tis guy? like old school old school, I love it. keep it up man

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hahaha 😅 I’m getting a bit too old school these days man 😂 cheers for the comment brother! 👍👍👍

[@jkleins2869]

Why wouldn’t someone have access to the GE?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

If someone chooses the Ironman options at the start you don’t get access to the GE and you can’t trade with other players 😅 it’s for players who want a bit more of a solo challenge 👍

[@jkleins2869]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight oh i didn’t realize that irommans can’t access the GE 🤯 that’s wild

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

All part of the extra challenge I guess 😅😅😅

[@zachbunch8701]

Either way powermine to 75 to fight bots to store your ores

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah the bots are a bit of a pain for sure! 😅

[@Teraonline-v3v]

No way I’m dropping 371k ores. I’d rather bank it. Slow but need that for smithing after.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah I would probably do the same to be honest, I hate wasting stuff! 😅

[@stevenhenry2850]

Legit not one f2p player not botting mining or smithing Id say 0.5/10 lol

[@stevenhenry2850]

V sad

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo stevenhenry2850! That may be well be true but I’m not going to make a video on how to bot 😂 And believe it or not I’ve never even attempted botting in ORSR always valued my account too much and I mainly played members 😅 I do wish more was done to prevent botting 🤷🏻‍♂️ I guess it’s probably a time and resources thing, same as the cheating that’s rife in online games now. Companies could stop it, but it means taking people off making new content or spending profit on tighter security solutions. They all prefer to take the money in the short term and screw the players in the long 🤷🏻‍♂️ In osrs’s case I don’t think the dev team is particularly big so I can kinda understand them wanting to focus on new content 😢

[@afrxsamurai1782]

Quick 1, would it not be cheaper to just super heat all the iron ore instead of using ring of forging, plus you get good mage exp? Use fire staff and the price of nats nowaday being at 88-90gp each?

[@afrxsamurai1782]

Okay ignore this just worked it out,superheat is like 32m to do all the ore, rings are about 5.6m 😅

[@afrxsamurai1782]

However it would get you 18m mage xp(102-103 mage) and 4.3m smith exp,giving you 87 smithing just from all the ores. But high alching to 99 mage from 55 you need 282,052 casts which is 25m, plus if you lose cash on whatever you're alching, so the extra 7m cash to get 87 smithing as well might be worth it in f2p, plus you wouldnt have to spend 5.6m on rings of forging. So I would say worth it if you have the cash, to know our x2 99 instead of 1

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

I think if you are a non iron this would be a great way to make a lot of xp in both magic and smithing! Yeah it would cost a bit but it’s not horrendous. 1 thing you can do and something I meant to check but forgot, was if you high alch your rings of forging when they are down to their last charge. I hear that you still get the full amount despite there being only 1 charge. So if that’s right you will get 1.2k back per ring 🤷🏻‍♂️ I need to check this as I was meant to add this as a tip at the end and forgot 🤦🏻‍♂️ Thanks for your comments and suggestions though afrxsamurai1782! 😁 All good points and ideas man! 😂👍👍

[@mobilegaming7663]

I've been using this method with mining iron ore n super heat then use anvil they are located in falador

[@samuelsharkey4305]

Theres so many bots I cant mine a single spot in f2p anymore

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh sorry brother… such is the way with F2P 😢 All you can do is try to world hop to a quiet world… 😞

[@tylerlee7622]

These places are infested with bots on every world. It’s so annoying.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh yeah, mining in F2P is massively bot heavy… If you are using RuneLite try using the world hopper plug in so you can quickly world hop to the next world with just a key press, that way you might be able to find an open world quicker… 😢 I wish Jagex would tackle the bots more…

[@Tom-lp1sd]

id rather bot lol

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Booo! I get the appeal of botting but it undermines the economy and the effort players have put in to do it properly… as my mam would say you’re only cheating yourself!